British Airways cabin boss ‘sexually assaulted sleeping air hostess at his home after drinking with her at a dinner’

Former British Airways crew manager Amardip ‘Amo’ Dhariwal, arrives at Reading Criwn Court…….Pic by Simon Jones. Credit: Simon Jones A BRITISH Airways cabin boss preyed on a sleeping air hostess after downing beer and wine at his home, a court heard. Amardip “Amo” Dhariwal, 55, allegedly assaulted the female colleague after boozing with her over dinner. The BA cabin boss is said to have met the hostess three months prior to the incident on a flight to Cape Town Credit: Alamy Amardip ‘Amo’ Dhariwal, 55, preyed on the woman after downing beer and wine at his home, a court heard Credit: Simon Jones The ex-lead flight manager is on trial for a single attack on one woman in 2022 — but a jury has heard from two other stewardesses who alleged he raped them on foreign trips. Dhariwal denies one count of sexual assault by penetration. Reading crown court heard he invited the woman to his then-home in Bracknell, Berks, for dinner, where they drank beer and wine. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! The woman, then engaged and now married, said she dozed off as they watched a film and woke to find Dhariwal touching her intimately. Prosecutor James Partridge told jurors: “They met three months prior to the incident on a flight to Cape Town. “They got on so well that they met for coffee a few times. She went to his house for taco and movie nights.” She even referred to Dhariwal as her “work husband”. Mr Partridge added: “They started watching a film. As they watched it, the victim said she had her legs up. “She awoke to the defendant touching her.” Most read in The Sun He said the woman “felt bewildered” and escaped by finding a key while he was upstairs and called a friend “crying and whispering” on the phone. Dhariwal, now of Southall, West London, told police: “Anything that happened was consensual.” The jury was told Dhariwal allegedly raped a colleague in a Singapore hotel room in 2020. She woke naked in his bed, confused by how she got there, she said. Local police investigated but took no further action and would not help British cops, it was said. The other stewardess claimed she was assaulted while asleep and drunk in a hotel room in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in 2018. The trial continues.